San Fernando

This son of Mexican immigrants grew up in working class Pacoima and went to MIT before returning home to help found a political machine that gave a voice to Latinos in the San Fernando Valley that they never had.

In 2023, the Ethics Commission accused Lee, who occupies Englander’s former seat representing the northwest San Fernando Valley, of accepting “multiple gifts” in violation of ethics laws, including free hotel rooms, poker chips and food, from a businessman and a developer during the Vegas trip.

The two candidates in the west San Fernando Valley are blasting each other as untrustworthy in the run-up to Tuesday’s election.

San Fernando and Sylmar have agreed to play their Valley Mission League game at the Coliseum on Oct.

Social studies teacher Gregg Solkovits remembers his days years ago at Monroe High in the San Fernando Valley as an unlucky campus wanderer, trudging from classroom to classroom, lugging teaching materials and personal artifacts around, as he did not have a room to call his own.